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Having left Curlew Island we thread our way through the dozens of ship carriers anchored off the port of Mackay. Unable to get our engine oil leaks worked on immediately we decided to carry on cruising up the coast and maybe try somewhere else. We had brie...

In this episode we head off from Great Keppel Island to nearby North Keppel island, then on to Pearl Bay. The following day we're off to Hexham Island and overnight stops at Percy Islands well known West Bay, and the mysterious island of Curlew part of the...

After finishing all our boat jobs to get the boat ready for the cruising season, we are finally off. Leaving Moreton Bay we head up the Sunshine Coast and over the Wide Bay Bar. Short overnight stops as we sail across Hervey Bay to reach Bundaberg.

Sailing Catamaran Escape - Cruising the Queensland Coast - Episode 64 After coming down from the hardstand at Boatworks in Coommera we take a work berth. We finish the window installation, change the LED in the tachometer to regain the hours. Another job...

This video shows the very simple steps to set up and operate a Rainman Portable Watermaker to produce pure, fresh, drinking water from the sea onboard a boat via reverse osmosis. It’s also our honest, totally unsponsored, review of the system after using...

Here’s our year on YouTube in nine minutes. Between our regular episodes, we thought we’d put together this little look back on our trip up the Queensland Coast to the tip of Cape York and the Torres Straits, our stepping off point to Indonesia. We ho...

It's been over 2 years since the last haul out, so "Escape" is well due for some maintenance. First on the list was replacing the broken window that was damaged in the storm as we left The Solomon Islands on our crossing of The Coral Sea ( see Episode 56)....

In July 2023 we completed our first international crossing on SV Our Dreamtime, sailing from Horn Island in the Torres Strait to Debut on the island of Kai Kecil in Indonesia. Five days at sea, 700 nautical miles across the Gulf of Carpentaria and Arafura ...

HERE'S OUR LAST VIDEO IN AUSTRALIA for a quite a while at least. In this Episode we talk about how we go about planning our 700 nautical mile (1,300 kilometres) passage across the Gulf of Carpentaria and Arafura Sea to Indonesia, what we need to take int...

In this episode, we anchor Our Dreamtime off the northern tip of Cape York to go ashore and stand on the very top of mainland Australia. Every year thousands of eager off-roaders make the pilgrimage up the Cape in four wheel drives to ‘Tick the box’ wi...

In this episode we leave The Great Sandy Straits and head across the infamous Wide Bay Bar sailing through the night to enter Moreton Bay and anchor at The Sandhills. During one of our nights there we endure a thunderstorm, heavy rain and a lightning displ...

We’re on our final push north to the top of Australia sailing from Portland Roads to beautiful Cape Grenville where we discover the biggest, tastiest oysters of our lives. Then it’s on to Mount Adolphous Island in the Torres Strait after an overnight s...